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I installed Steam a bit ago, and installed/played Peggle without any problems.

Not too long ago, around the time I installed KDE4, Steam stopped working. It still opens, but whenever I try to install a game or run an installed game, it simply closes without any message of any sort.

I've tried repairing, and removing and reinstalling, but with no effect. What should I do, oh great Codeweavers personell?

Important information:
Ubuntu 8.04
GeForce 8800GT
AMD 64 X2 6000+

I've heard about this problem before, but I have no idea what the reason is. When you tried to reinstall steam, did you try to reinstall it in a different bottle?

Also try to disable the in-game steam overlay in the Steam settings

Originally I had tried reinstalling it in the same bottle.

I just tried again, installing it in a new bottle (Windows XP).

Exact same result, except without any of the applications that I had installed (before the problem started) in the other bottle.

What did you mean, disabling the Steam overlay? I tried disabling the in-game Steam community, but to no effect. It still closes (with no errors or useful messages) as soon as I click on the Install button for any application.

I'm sorry I've been responding so slow. If someone can try to assist me, I will try to respond more quickly.

I am willing to install VNC (or something similar) if someone more leet than I would like to take a look at my machine directly.

This is not really my area of expertise, but here are some things to check:

http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/CXOffice62_Ubuntu804libnss

Check for updates to KDE

Disable Compiz

My woes on Ubuntu 8.04 stopped after disabling compiz (you know the wobbly window effect etc).

There's an entry in tips and tricks about it. Otherwise:

"Hardy Heron comes with Compiz configured out of the box. You need to disable it.
This site contains details on how to disable compiz and how to setup a desktop icon to enable and disable compiz on the fly.
http://www.ubuntu1501.com/2008/04/stop-compiz-fusion-from-loading.html"

Hmm... I tried that, and it looks like metacity was already enabled (instead of compiz) in my conf files. I ran metacity --replace anyway, just to be sure, but the problem persists. When I click on the Install option in the context menu that appears when I right click on a game, Steam just closes. Frustrating!